Zane's behavior

[Don in Cal]

Your knowledge, web advice and builder of Zane Thing's etc is to valuable to N owners and this web site for you to be risking life and limb by going around chain sawing tornado trees that us younger guys can and should be doing! I commend you on helping out the tornado victims, but please find another less dangerous way, maybe by just keeping the FEMA guys busy so the rest of us can sneak around and do the tree cutting without getting caught! the same goes for Dell, Sourguy and those other old timers who are always there to help us less knowledge guy with our tractor troubles! either that or publish complete plans of all your Zane Things on the Web so we can make our own after your gone!, and may that be a long long time from now!

 

[Ken-Pa]

That tornado mess of downed trees isn't safe for even the young guys . Back in the early 80s a tornado went thru locally , killing an old lady in a demolished trailer park . Well a bunch of us guys from my church volunteered our services of cleaning up around a guys farm . We cut & cleared downed trees , many of us hauled wood home for firewood . Well on one excursion , I was helping with an uprooted very large oak tree . I couldn't reach limbs since I'm short , so I crawled up on this downed tree to delimb it for the people on the ground . Well to everyones surprise once I got the top weight cut off that tree stood back up putting the roots back into the hole & throwing me several yards down into all the dead falls . It took everyone several minutes to get a path cleared to find me . It knocked me out & almost broke my left arm & busted my front teeth loose . Believe it or not , the chainsaw was still idling with the bar laying across my stomach . That memory has stuck in my mind ever since . I will not venture into that kind of mess again .Those trees are not only down but they are twisted & just waiting to have pressure released by a chainsaw . Its a hidden catastrophy waiting to happen - believe me . Then a couple days later an experienced logger was killed near where my accident happened . The tree he was cutting was twisted & when he released pressure the tree splintered throwing the chainsaw into his face . So be very careful no matter what age or experience you have . God bless

 

[Dunk]

Zane has been handling his own behavior for many years......

:lol:

 

[Don in Cal]

Zane, try this instead, down hill biking! not a single tree in sight! great way to get your adriline going instead of cutting trees...http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/bike_race.html <http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/bike_race.html>

 

[old]

Ken I have to agree with you there. About the only sort of safe way to handle tornado mess is with a big machine like the 950 Cat I used in 2003 when I had trees all over to clean up

 

[don t-9n180179]

In theory I agree, but I am also of the opinion that if using a chainsaw to help others is what floats his boat I say go for it.

IIRC....soundguy is in his (+/-) 40's.
I could be wrong.

Have fun....don t. ....

 

[jackinok]

those trees can certainly fool you sometimes,but I figure zane knows what he''s doing. may be like some of the rest of us when were trying to get something done,tells the younger guys to Stand back and watch and learn,its faster to show you than it is to explain it a half dozen times,LOL.thats why I never could make a really good supervisor in all the jobs ive had.the rest of the crew always acted like they couldnt do something,and by the time I got mad and showed them for the humpteenth time it was done!

 

[Salmoneye]

You don"t get old being stupid...

Zane can handle himself...

 

[ZANE]

Thag big oak that I cut up stood back up when I cut the trunk about four feet from the root ball. I had already told the young boy helping me that it was going to stand back up. He just sort of gave me that "your're kidding me" look. I did stop the saw and tell him again when he got about six feet away from the edge of the rootball. When it flipped up as the saw went through his eyes got big as saucers!!! The root ball was about 12 feet around and about two feet thick.

I can see how you could have gotten killed when you did it. Cutting timber is one of the most dangerous jobs there is and I may yet get killed by a tree but I've been doing it for at least 50 years on and off. I've done it full time in times past to put bread on the table. I've been hit many times by limbs cocked like a BB gun lever. Seen lots of people hurt too. Including myself but never a bone broken. Not yet.

I'll be 76 years old 21 August and been carrying an artificial aorta around in my belly for the past 16 years. Probably shouldn't be doing stuff like that!!!!!

Zane

 

[Ken-Pa]

Yes, i"ve had wayy too many incidents in the woods in my life . When i was a kid , my dad & another guy partnered in cutting pulp wood . I drug the logs out into a large field & set them up so a log truck could get at them easy . My dads 640 had a Comfort Cab on it so i stayed nice & warm . Well one day while I was dragging out a couple logs past dad , i heard him yell something . So I stopped , put the tractor in neutrel & looked back to see waht he was yelling about . He pointed toward where the other guy was cutting & said get down . I laid down along side of the hood ontop of the tie rod when all of a sudden I thought I was a goner . That dummy dropped a very large tree on top of the tractor & me . The cab was smashed down against the steering wheel & busted the steering wheel & pinning me against the side of the tractor . Dad had to cut that log away from me & the tractor . Oh was he mad . It was kinda nice to see my Dad show some true love for me at that time . But the other guy decided to leave at that time 7 Dad ended their partnership . Ended up , both fenders were also smashed , lights & hood damage . Plus I"ve been smacked in the face & head by twisted & weighted down tree limbs . So a guy really needs to study the trees position & plan ahead for a quick escape . When you think you know it all , that"s when you are in trouble . God bless

 

[old]

Ya and even if one looks at a tree and figures it will fall this way or that it may not do so. I lost a saw one time to a tree that fell up hill. It was one that was hit by lighting and had split down the middle. Big sucker at that since a 16 inch bar would not cut it all the way and that was with it split. Any how I was cutting the last half of it and it was hanging on a small area so I set the saw up hill of it and hammer in a wedge and that thing spun around and fell up hill. It missed me by just inches of a y in it and hit my saw and broke the carb off. I loved that old D/B saw. It was so heavy if you could start it and lift it the thing would fall through a tree